Introduction
Complications due to pregnancy enlarge the anterior pituitary gland, while not giving it ample blood supply. Necrosis destroys gland function, and hence decreased functioning of the anterior pituitary.
This is Sheehan’s Syndrome, otherwise known as 产后血劳 in Chinese Medicine. The person shows signs of deficiency, with symptoms caused by a dearth of hormones from the anterior […]
Introduction
First mentioned in the medical class 《金匮要略》 where the author Mr. Zhang speaks of three postpartum diseases. Convulsion (痉病) is the first mentioned.
Likely causes
Likely because the mother is deficient in blood and fluids. Just as likely to be due to an infection, say of the amniotic sac during labor, after which the mum develops a […]
Back then in the spawning years of Chinese Medicine, dId people experience AFE and HELLP? If they did, then the closest Chinese Medicine-named illness would be 产后血晕.
产后血晕 incorporates symptoms as dizziness, inability to sit down, tightness of chest, nausea, vomiting, breathing problems, vexation, and even loss of consciousness. These symptoms appear becuase there is excessive […]
Both 血晕 and eclampsia (子痫) often manifest dizziness and headache, edema, hypertension and proteinuria, but we can consider 子痫 as slightly more severe because it make also include spasms (抽搐).
痉病 is another name for convulsions/seizures. 痉 comes from the word 痉挛. 痉病 has a more narrow definition and its etiology is more related to trauma, […]
Constipation is defined as
time between shitting is increased to >2d
there is difficulty while shitting
can categorize as 原发性 and 继发性
or 功能性 and 器质性
Causes include diet, mental state, constitution, and illness
Functional Constipation
we will focus on functional constipation (功能性便秘), which is can be classified as due to deficiency (弛缓型) or due to excess (痉挛型).
Case of deficiency
In the case […]